Woman Finds Mouse Head in Frozen Green Beans

How's this for a Halloween fright? A woman in Auckland, New Zealand, was opening a package of Heinz-Watties "choice cut" frozen green beans when she came across a strange-looking foreign object. The unidentified frozen object in question was a shrunken mouse's head.

"I thought it was a little husk or something so I took it out of the microwave and pulled it out. It had eyes looking back at me," said Jacquie Lewis, the surprised recipient. If she hadn't stopped to take a closer look at the one-centimeter-wide object, she could have eaten it. She described the experience as "incredibly nauseating. I thought, 'If this is your head, where exactly is the rest of you?'"

Heinz-Watties explained that wildlife can get into its food products from time to time, but the thought of this happening to someone still makes me shudder. Have you ever found something in your store-bought products that shouldn't have been there?

a couple years ago my roomate was creasking eggs and suddenly stopped and said, 'oh god, gross.' i went over to see what happened and he advised me not to look in the garbage. i didn't. this guy works in surgery all day on hearts and other organs so i figured that if he told me it was gross, it most likely was pretty bad. it was a chicken fetus.
also, i worked at a coffeehouse and another employee was emptying a can of lentis (ItalPasta brand) and found this long hardened worm.
last instance, growing up we had a large garden (everything from corn to cantaloupe). my parents grew broccoli. my dad had started to eat his broccoli and asked my mom if she put rosemary on the vegetable. she said, 'no.' let me tell you, they never grew broccoli again. apparntly it was prone to worms in our region.

a couple years ago my roomate was creasking eggs and suddenly stopped and said, 'oh god, gross.' i went over to see what happened and he advised me not to look in the garbage. i didn't. this guy works in surgery all day on hearts and other organs so i figured that if he told me it was gross, it most likely was pretty bad. it was a chicken fetus.also, i worked at a coffeehouse and another employee was emptying a can of lentis (ItalPasta brand) and found this long hardened worm.last instance, growing up we had a large garden (everything from corn to cantaloupe). my parents grew broccoli. my dad had started to eat his broccoli and asked my mom if she put rosemary on the vegetable. she said, 'no.' let me tell you, they never grew broccoli again. apparntly it was prone to worms in our region.

I had a long fingernail tip, neatly clipped, in my yogurt once. They gave me a case of yogurt when I called. Grasshoppers jump. Mice scurry. Is it crazy to think that sometimes, they might be hiding in a garden or a farm and carried in with the vegeatables, and somebody might not see them? I don't want to pay somebody to inspect every bag. They check some, and that's it. Food should come from a garden, not a lab. Worms are better than MSG.

that is one of the nastiest things I've ever heard! my mom told me that one of her coworkers was having ice cream with her daughter that had big nuts in it. the daughter chewed into an especially crunchy nut that turned out to be a grasshopper! ew!

i've never found anything in my food, but there was a whole mouse (dead) in a bag of dog food we bought a few years ago. my mom couldn't figure out why the dogs weren't eating and when she looked in their bowl, there was the mouse in all it's glory. she didn't do anything since she said "they would just say it wasn't from the food bag" but we've never had mice in our house, nor have any of our neighbors. dogs didn't seem to be bothered by it once we threw it away though :)

I found a whole grasshopper in a bag of fresh spinach once. It was kind of gross, but I took the bag back to the store and showed it to them. They immediately gave me my money back plus they gave me a new bag of spinach. It wasn't enough to make me not buy spinach ever again, but I am a lot more careful now!

We found 3 chunks of metal in the ice cream cake we bought for my boss' birthday last year. We found them when he bit into one. I still think I'd rather find metal than a mouse head.
I've never heard of that brand of frozen veggies, but I certainly wouldn't buy any after hearing that.

I'm from Auckland, New Zealand and I always buy my veggies fresh since hearing this story!!! :O
There was also a news report about a WHOLE frozen mouse found in one of those frozen mircowave meals... too disgusting to imagine!!

There's really no way to prevent this from happening 100% of the time. People should not get so excited about it. I guarantee you animals and insects are present in your food chain right now.
Just be more careful when you check your food.